Chapter CCXC

Carlemagne around him calls his counts and dukes:
"What counsel give ye touching those I kept,
Unto this plea who came for Ganelon
Themselves sworn hostages for Pinabel?"
Respond the French:--"Let none of them survive!"--
Carle then commands a road-keeper, Basbrun:
"Hang them all up on yon accursed tree!
By this gray beard of mine, I swear, if one
Escape, thou diest but a villain's death!"--
Answered the man:--"What else but to obey?"--
Then by a hundred sergeants roughly seized,
Those thirty men are hanged.--Who man betrays
Destroys himself and others drags to death.
Aoi.